Assistant Secretary in the Nizam's Peshi Office
at the recommendation, it is said, of Mr. Eardley
Norton, with whom he had been working as a
legal practitioner.
A man of humble origin, as he himself told his
friends with admirable candour, he found himself
suddenly brought face to face with the Nizam of
Hyderabad. He was a favourite of Fortune,
who created a convenient vacancy for him when
Nawab Survar-ul-Mulk, Peshi Secretary, had to
retire suddenly in 1896. The Assistant thus
became Secretary and was known later as Chief
Secretary to His Highness the Nizam of Hyder-
abad. In course of time he was made C.S.L
and K.C.I.E.
He was an important person in the entourage.
Confined for the greater part of his life within the
four walls of a room, over-busy transcribing royal
Firmans, he had not much opportunity for deve-
loping originality. And as he had no mischievous
tendencies in him, he managed to keep the noise-
less tenor of his way to hoary old age, winning
the esteem of his fellow-beings by his meekness.
Love. of books distinguished him from the
majority of our officials and induced him to collect
a good library and house it in a suitable building
erected for the purpose. This, a monument in
itself, helped to draw an atmosphere of erudition
around him and may possibly have afforded
the consolation of a student which he needed
in later years to alleviate the sorrows of life, such